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Grace by Richard Paul Evans

Grace

A Novel

by Richard Paul Evans

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  • Oct 2008, 192 pages
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She was my first kiss. My first love. She was a little match girl who could see the future in the flame of a candle. She was a runaway who taught me more about life than anyone has before or since. And when she was gone my innocence left with her.

As I begin to write, a part of me feels as if I am awakening something best left dead and buried, or at least buried. We can bury the past, but it never really dies. The experience of that winter has grown on my soul like ivy climbing the outside of a home, growing until it begins to tear and tug at the brick and mortar.

I pray I can still get the story right. My memory, like my eyesight, has waned with age. Still, there are things that become clearer to me as I grow older. This much I know: too many things were kept secret in those days. Things that never should have been hidden. And things that should have.

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Ben Guffey

Touching
This is a touching story of a boy trying to fit in and a girl trying to get out.There is romance, sorrow, betrayal, and a touching ending. It all starts in the back of a burger joint when a 14 year old meats a 16 year old dumpster diving. He asks her to come to his house and she lives in a club house behind his house. There is mystery when she starts getting sick, eating lot and gaining weight. Soon they start dating and there is just a click between them then when everything is going well she reveals a secret that will shock us all. This is a great read for boys and girls alike, you will enjoy this book.

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Richard Paul Evans Author Biography

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Each of Richard Paul Evans' more than twenty-five novels has been a New York Times bestseller. There are more than twenty million copies of his books in print worldwide, translated into more than twenty-four languages. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Mothers Book Award, the Romantic Times Best Women's Novel of the Year Award, the German Audience Gold Award for Romance, two Religion Communicators Council Wilbur Awards, the Washington Times Humanitarian of the Century Award and the Volunteers of America National Empathy Award.

He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Keri, and their five children.

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